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Part 6 of series: The Challenge and Opportunity of Virtual Church
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In my last post, I suggested that, though virtual church has many benefits, a personal cannot experience everything church is supposed to be without being physically present with other Christians. Thus the potential for church to be fully real is there for physical church, but not for virtual church. No matter how wonderful and authentic a virtual church experience might be, it is never able completely to be church.
I'm not quite sure if Douglas Estes, who makes a strong, persuasive case for virtual church in SimCity, agrees or disagrees with me here. I think he disagrees, but I'm not positive. Nevertheless, his fine book shows, even in its effort to defend virtual church, some of the inherent inadequacies of virtual church. This is evident, for example, in Estes' chapter on "WikiWorship" (pp. 103-134). There, he devotes considerable space to explaining how people might participate in the sacraments of communion and baptism in a virtual church. In several of Estes' own scenarios, some sort of physical relationship with other people is required. Thus these are not fully virtual experiences. The options Estes presents for fully online communion and/or baptism are laden with difficulties, as Estes' own critique shows. To be sure, some of what the sacraments signify can be experienced through the Internet alone, but something will always be missing: physicality, materiality, full human contact.
Estes makes strong arguments in support of the notion that water is not really necessary for baptism, or real bread and liquid for communion. I know this might sound crazy, but if you read Estes' book, as I have suggested, you'll be impressed with his points.
Yet I think he underestimates the extent to which the power of the sacraments lies, in part, in their materiality. Communion, for example, isn't just a chance to signify and remember Jesus. It is an opportunity to experience and solidify that memory through consuming actual bread and drinking actual juice or wine. Baptism, when experienced by one who is old enough to understand what's happening, involves physical sensations that amplify the spiritual meaning. When one goes down under the water and then comes up, there is an experience of something like dying and rising, and this experience simply cannot be duplicated emotionally through something one watches online.
And if one baptizes oneself in real water which participating in some virtual ceremony, though the water is real, that person will never know what it's like to receive baptism. Rather, his or her experience will be that of doing it to him or herself. And this, I suggest, is theologically suspect and subjectively inadequate.
As soon as one solves the sacrament problem for virtual church by coming up with some physical church experience, then that makes the case: virtual church is not enough.
To this point, I have been making an existential argument for the inadequacy of virtual church, based on the experience of the sacraments. I recognize, as Estes rightly points out in his book, that Christians believe many different things about the sacraments and experience them in widely different ways. Yet one thing all Christians have had in common, at least until very recently, is the conviction that the sacraments necessarily include material elements and happen (almost always) in the context of physical Christian community.
If you take away materiality and physical community from the sacraments, you may have something that approximates them. You can still remember the death of Christ. You can still celebrate that fact that a believer dies to sin and is raised to Christ. But something profound is missing, something which, I believe, is not just optional, but essential to a full experience of church.
In my next post I'll suggest a theological reason why I think virtual church can't ever quite be fully church.
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The purpose of the Children's Hearings System Research Programme was to provide systematic information about the way in which the Hearings system operates, and to examine ways in which it can be improved. This major programme of research funded by the Scottish Office was launched in 1993 and involved three related studies. The first was conducted by Professor Christine Hallett and Mr Neal Hazel at Stirling University and set the work of the Children's Hearings system in an international context through a review of research on comparative systems for child welfare and justice. A related study, conducted by Professor Christine Hallett and Ms Cathy Murray with Ms Janet Jamieson and Mr Billy Veitch, explored the factors involved in decision making in the Hearings system. The reports for these two studies were published in September 1998.
The third study in the programme was a three-year longitudinal study that examined the backgrounds and personal circumstances of a cohort of children referred to Reporters in 1995 and examined the outcomes for these children and young people one and two years on. The interface between the Children's Hearings and criminal justice system was also considered. Professor Lorraine Waterhouse, Ms Janice McGhee, Mr Bill Whyte, Ms Nancy Loucks and Ms Helen Kay undertook this research at the University of Edinburgh. A summary of findings from this study was provided for the conference and a fuller report has been published.
On behalf of the Social Work Services Group, the Central Research Unit organised a conference about the Children's Hearings Research Programme, which was held in March 1999. The conference aimed to promote discussion of the implications of the programme's research findings and to stimulate debate about ways of improving the effectiveness of the Hearings system. The two research teams who undertook the studies gave presentations that focused on key research findings and their implications for the future of the Hearings system. Representatives of lay members of, and professionals working in, the system gave prepared responses to the presentations of findings. The conference also included workshops that aimed to generate discussion of the issues raised by the presentations. The conference closed with a Ministerial address.
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As part of the U.S. EdTech program earlier this year with 9 other participants, we have been asked to take part in the U.S. Embassy's 2014 annual economic conference in Dublin. "Smart People for a Smart Economy: Technology, Education and Filling the Skills Gap" on 3rd April 2014.
This U.S. Embassy annual conference will bring together tech leaders, policy makers, educators, entrepreneurs and business leaders from the U.S., Ireland and Northern Ireland to explore the next wave of innovation set to hit education and learning with broad implications. The transformation already hinted at from MOOCs, gamification and online assessment offer both challenges and opportunities as countries look to reexamine how to deliver education and to keep up with the pace of technological change. Adaptive learning, big data and ubiquitous high speed internet will disrupt past models. Private-public partnerships will be needed to close the skills gap, encourage new emphasis in STEM education, and ensure that creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation skills are nurtured. Ireland and the US have complementary situations and this conference offers an opportunity to jump start greater cooperation and exchange.
The conference will be opened by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and closed by Ciaran Cannon TD, Minister of State for Training and Skills. Breakout Sessions include
- Innovation Rich: Industry-Academic Engagement and Finding Faster Graduated Pathways to Productive Careers
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- Future Classrooms: EdTech K-12 and Creating Pathways to Careers
- STEM, STEAM and Entrepreneurship Skills: Learning in the 21st Century
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- Innovating in Education
- Innovative Citizenship: the New Civics
Two session I am helping to curate are
Future of the University (with Dr Jill Haynes)
With MOOCs, online learning and MBAs that can be earned on an iPad, what is the future of the university? This discussion will look forward at the changing role in society of the university.
Mike Feerick, Alison.com
Bettie Higgs, University College Cork
Brian MacCraith, Dublin City University
STEM, STEAM and Entrepreneurship Skills: Learning In The 21st Century (with Roisin Crawford and Gareth McAleese)
How can a needed push for higher achievement in STEM areas be coupled with a nurturing of creativity, entrepreneurial thinking and 21st century skill?
Steven Duggan, Microsoft
Sean O'Sullivan, SOSVentures
John Peto, Nerve Centre
Shauntel Poulson, NewSchools Venture Fund
The event is being streamed live and you can follow activity on twitter with the hashtag #smart14.
A spin off from this event is being held the following day (Friday 4th April) in Derry 'Creating SMART Skills for the NW SMART Economy' held in St Mary's College, Derry. The is a great opportunity to have some fantastic speakers visiting our city.
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Netflix series, "13 Reasons Why," has been out for over two months now and I finally gained the ability to watch it.
Having read the book, multiple reviews, press coverage and more on the show prior to watching the first season, I wasn't thrilled. I wasn't excited and was hesitant to become another viewer after reading all the mixed feelings.
But as someone who was bullied throughout her entire youth until she moved to Ithaca after the 7th grade, I didn't want to admit that I could possibly connect to the show, even at 23 years old. In a few short paragraphs, here's a synopsis of my youth.
I had only two friends growing up while I had to live through a series of name calling, death wishes on then hit social media site Myspace (R.I.P), had a fake Myspace account made of me, Twinkies thrown in my face, ridiculed for being another awkward pubescent teenager, fat-shamed, sexual harassed and was hated by a lot of people for no concrete reason. I was lonely, depressed and didn't want to live anymore because of everything that was happening in my youth.
It will be 10 years this month, June 17 to be precise, when it all finally ended. I became free of all the negativity, the name-calling, sexual harassment and hate. I remember it all but I don't hold grudges or hate anyone who did anything. There's no point. It's in the past and for one reason or another, it happened for a reason.
But it still happened. It's in my box of memories that I can never forget. Its shaped who I've become as a young adult. And that's why I connect with the character, Hannah Baker, for many of these reasons.
Watching the first season took me back to that time when I tried to make friends or tried to do the right thing and it backfired on me. I remember being touched by my male classmates and saying no to their gestures, feeling so violated I couldn't even stop them.
I remember the rumors spread about me that went out to the whole school within a class period, out to people I didn't even know or interacted with. I remember vividly being suspended out of school for defending myself as someone instigated a fight with me, and then having the blame for the bullying and fighting on me from all my teachers and administrators.
Day in and day out I would watch people stare and talk as I stood in my faded and worn out top red locker for two years in the 6th and 7th grade wings at Woodbury, confused as I tried to find the right words to say. Something to make it all stop so I didn't have to cry myself to sleep each night.
It might be over 10 years ago by now but I still remember: faces and names and moments. No matter how hard I try I can't change my narrative. I can't make up what I have lived through.
I didn't lie and Hannah Baker didn't lie about what she went through either. I believed every tape she made when I read the book and watched the series. You can't make events; like being bullied, ridiculed, sexual harassed, and for Hannah and Jessica, being raped, up. It was her narrative to tell.
I connect with Hannah and I understand her motives. I understand why she wanted to kill herself. I understand why she made the tapes; in order for the other students to truly understand exactly what they did, how it stuck with Hannah and how those moments shaped her perception of the world and people in her tiny town.
Some people, in the show and some in real-life, think that making the tapes were all for attention. I don't agree with the approach of what became of the tapes in the show but the motives are clear. There is nothing than a person who has experienced severe bullying wants is the straightforward, truthful answer to the simple question.
Why was I was the one ridiculed for so many years?
Why was I always touched when I said no?
What did I do that was so horrific that nobody wanted to be seen with me?
Why did you do it?
Why did so many people watch and not say a word?
Why me?
Just… why?
All Hannah wanted was an answer to the hell she was living in. Heck, that's all I wanted growing up, too. Some I got, some I didn't but I don't need those questions answered anymore. Hannah was never able to receive a reason why but she gave her reasons why.
All I want is for teenagers and young students to not go through the hell and misery I went through or go through what Hannah went through depicted from a book to the screen.
If there is one lesson to take away from this show: words have more power than we recognize or believe they do. Words, hurtful and degrading words, are more powerful than the people who actually say them.
Be kind. Be good. Everyone is going through a battle you know nothing about. And bullying shows the character of the bully, not the bullied.
Part 2 featuring what I found enjoyable and powerful in "13 Reasons Why" will be coming in a few days.


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The Dubai government announced its commitment to invest over $1.4 billion in the food sector during the upcoming months, due largely to the fact that over 90 percent of food goods is imported. While there are currently over 150 food processing plants in the emirates now, the plan is to grow this to accommodate the growing demand for production.
Food prices in Dubai and throughout the UAE have been the driving force behind inflation rates that are ranging between two and three percent. With the cost of sugar and rice on the rise, high costs are likely a large driving factor for the Dubai government to invest in more options for processing food locally. While the raw ingredients will still be imported, processing and packaging food locally drives the economy by creating jobs and lowers the overall cost of food in the long run.
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We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft Office Online and ShareFile customers can now co-author Office documents within ShareFile, thanks to our Office 365 integration.
Last year, we launched the Cloud Storage Partner Program to make it easier to work with Office documents no matter where they're stored. The next milestone in our program is here with real-time co-authoring of Office Online documents stored on Citrix ShareFile. Our goal is to make Office documents more open and accessible, and to provide ShareFile customers greater flexibility in how they work with individuals and teams.
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Drip Drip Drip…the Trump swamp keeps getting bigger and bigger…remember Erik Prince 's (Blackwater) sister is Betsy DeVos….
I know…another day, another Russian connection. Pretty soon all the "T's" will be crossed and all the "I's" will be dotted and Comrade Trump will be removed from office.
Isn't it treasonous or illegal for a "pre-president" to be negotiating with a foreign country or enemy before becoming president….per the Logan Act?
Just in from the Washington Post:
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump's inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would likely require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
Erik Prince needs to be questioned under oath and investigated by the FBI. What "under the table" deal was made with the UAE?
Current and former U.S. officials said that while Prince refrained from playing a direct role in the Trump transition, his name surfaced so frequently in internal discussions that he seemed to function as an outside adviser whose opinions were valued on a range of issues, including plans for overhauling the U.S. intelligence community.
He appears to have particularly close ties to Bannon, appearing multiple times as a guest on Bannon's satellite radio program over the past year as well as in articles on the Breitbart Web site that Bannon ran before joining the Trump campaign.
In a July interview with Bannon, Prince said those seeking forceful U.S. leadership should "wait till January and hope Mr. Trump is elected." And he lashed out at President Barack Obama, saying that because of his policies "the terrorists, the fascists, are winning."
Prince went on to make a series of unfounded assertions that damaging material recovered from Weiner's computers would implicate Hillary Clinton and her close adviser, Huma Abedin, who was married to Weiner. He also called Abedin an "agent of influence very sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood."
Or……maybe this story was leaked by Trump and his deplorable gang to insinuate that he did not have any relationship with Putin prior to his inauguration? Nothing Trump and his basket of deplorable's do would ever shock me. They're depraved and immoral.


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Like President Logan in this season of 24, I have let others make the tough decisions. Mother Lode is the winner for my sock pal socks. This colorway received about 67% of the votes. Of course, that's not counting the votes for "oh, they're both nice!" or "gee, I don't know." Now, I just have to pick a pattern. Hmmm...
G and I got the afternoon off today, thanks to free babysitting from the grandparents. We went to see Capote, and I can highly recommend it. Both Phillip Seymour Hoffman (as Truman Capote) and Catherine Keener (as Harper Lee) were outstanding.
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Ever since school has been back in session, things have pretty much been a fast paced roller coaster of thinking and analyzing and criticizing and then doing, to then restart that cycle.
I've been trying to decide on pushing my project in another direction or hanging it up for now and starting a new (but kind of the same) interest. Either or, I'm excited about it. We'll see what happens.
Here are the two portraits that are finished, I took them the weekend before this past one.
I think I'm moving into a much different direction with the project: involving only strangers in their homes with less guidelines in terms of age and much more of an interactive situation between photographer and subjects. I'll post some as soon as I have some finished, I'd like to hear what anyone thinks.
So I guess I'll run through what's been going on lately.
Well a few weeks ago when we got back from Florida, Suzy and her roommates found a large heating bill, so they decided to throw a party and sell booze at it.
Unfortunately, we profited maybe $30.00 from the party.
Aside from that, other random things include:
-Got a physical at the doctor.
-My car (Blue '92 Honda Accord) basically having too many things wrong with it to drive.
-Someone buying my car for $800.00.
-Another person wanting my car that was already sold.
-That person buying my brother's car (Green '91 Honda Accord) that has not started for about 6 months for $700.00.
-The 190,000 mile relationship with a car coming to a beautiful ending.
Now I drive a Ford Focus, which I would compare to driving a golf cart on a 4 lane highway. However, the miniature quality of the Focus does make me feel like a giant.
Anyways, other things that have not been talked about,
Brian moved out, to New York City.
I'd link you to his work, but I don't think it's up just yet.
So then Rob moved in,
And we have made a full darkroom in our kitchen with 3 enlargers and separate room for chemistry. We're working on making it more efficient. But it's difficult with school being immediately intense this semester.
Here's a picture of Asher and Rob on our way to Mike's on the way to the last critique.
what the hell happened to those?
(^ here is Rob, Petya, Hannah, Sydney, and Elise)
(And ^ Chiara) At our last critique. Most of the others who came regularly are linked on the right.
But really, I'd be interested in starting those up again. David Robert Elliott and I were talking about it at Brad's Satin Satan show the other night (which was an awesome pick of work, by the way.)
Rob and I can host some nights. Whoever's still down to continue it, please let me know and we'll get something started again.
In other news, the weather has been ridiculous in Chicago.
I've been doing my best to photograph in between going places on the street,
which sometimes the 40 degree temperature changes help out with.
But mainly I just photograph while not being able to feel my hands.
I guess I've been photographing a lot of the el lately,
I found this el scene to be pretty strange.
Me and Rob have inevitably been hanging out a lot since he has moved in,
and consequently Petya has been hanging out also,
Quinn took some pretty awesome pictures of us with her fisheye when we stopped in one day.
Here's some more random pictures.
As far as school goes, I couldn't be happier with my classes.
I don't know if I've been able to say that with an entire class schedule at Columbia before.
I mainly say that because of my classmates in these classes, it's been fantastic company.
We got out of Advanced View Camera one day and went to Yolk.
(Mike talking about creamer and making 'that's what she said' jokes, inappropriately.)
(Rob on break from something.)
(Ryan Bakerink took a picture of me with my camera.)
((Which I think actually ups the resale value of my camera.))
(((Because he photographs famous people for a living.)))
More random photos?
Me and this lovely lady wandered one day before she had to work.
Got "Got Pizza" at some point,
stayed at Hilary's at some point,
went to see "Juno" at some point,
how "just alright" was that movie? Seriously.
I thought it was supposed to be hilarious.
George Michael completely let me down.
Me and Suzy went to Bloomington, Indiana this past weekend to visit one of her friends at IU. I'll post the pictures from then and this week probably next week sometime.
We're going to Fort Collins, Colorado this weekend to photograph some strangers I talked to through craigslist and to visit my friend Drew.
I guess that's it for now.
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Choosing the right font can be difficult to say the least, get it right and your artwork looks great but get it wrong and you can send completely the wrong message. Luckily there are a number of interesting typography pieces that I've come across recently to help you match up your needs and even your personality to just the right font. Nice.
Type geeks rejoice! This periodic table of fonts is the creation of Squidspot, displaying typefaces in an ingenious and gorgeous way. However, with each cell displaying the typeface, its designer, year of creation and popularity ranking this is much more than just a beautiful poster for the wall. Freely available to download and print from the website, the vector artwork is also available for a donation of your choosing. ¡Ademas está disponible en español, que bueno!
So, there's picking the right typeface for your artwork and then there's selecting the right font to reflect your personality. Luckily Pentagram have come up with an interactive site to help you do just that… Click here to visit the site.
My final typography nugget to offer you is 'Typography Primer' from Adobe. An informative guide with, I'll bet, a useful tip for any type enthusiast. Click here to view it.
And no Comic Sans in sight, phew.
Thanks to Tom and Charmian for bringing these into my/our world.


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Tindle Newspapers has bought one of the oldest newspapers in the country, the Wellington Weekly News.
The 4,120-circulation News, which was launched in 1860, sells in Wellington and the district south and west of Taunton, Devon. It is based in Wellington town centre.
Tindle publishes more than 200 titles, many of them more than 100 years old.
The acquisition was completed late on Tuesday, and staff met the three new directors of the company, Sir Ray Tindle, Brian Doel and Wendy Craig, on Wednesday.
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Courgette Ratatouille
2 Courgette (sliced)
1 medium cup fresh tomatoes
1 large onion (chopped)
1 tsp mixed spices
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp crushed garlic
Salt to taste
2 stock cubes
2 tbsps parsley (chopped)
1 tbsp olive oil
Wash and put the tomatoes in a bowl. Pour boiled water over it. After few minutes minutes, drain and peel the skin. Chop into medium size. Set aside.
Heat the olive oil in a pan add the onions, crushed garlic and fry for 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, seasonings and spices. Fry till liquid has come out of the tomatoes. Add the sliced courgette and stir now and then till fried. Sprinkle the parsley and fry for a minute or two. Remove from the fire.
Serve warm.
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Sealaska Heritage Institute's Walter Soboleff Building is a place where Native people tell the Native story. Visitors to the building can walk through an authentic clan house, learn about the four core cultural values of Southeast Alaskan Native cultures, explore Native art exhibits, and take home a Native-crafted souvenir, along with new insights into Southeast Alaskan history.
Visitors can also view three contemporary, monumental art pieces created for the building, representing the three tribes of the region, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian: two 40-foot exterior panels designed by the internationally celebrated Haida artist Robert Davidson; an enormous house front made by Tsimshian master artist David A. Boxley; and the largest glass screen in the world, made by Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary.
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News and reports
March 19, 2004 | Pages 10 and 11
Fight racism at Columbia University
NEW YORK--More than 150 people attended a rally at St. Mary's Church in West Harlem March 5 in solidarity with students protesting racism at Columbia University. The event, which was sponsored by the Harlem Tenants Council, addressed Columbia's pending 17-acre expansion into West Harlem as well as recent campus events such as an "anti-affirmative action bake sale" held by the Columbia College Conservative Club.
For the past three weeks, an ad-hoc coalition called Columbia University Concerned Students of Color has led protests and speak-outs demanding that Columbia's administration effectively deal with the racist climate on campus. Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, has ignored the coalition's actions.
Many speakers at the Harlem rally connected Bollinger's silence about the issue of racism on campus to the university's racist history in Harlem. "The treatment of students of color at Columbia University parallels [Columbia's treatment of people] in Harlem," said Nellie Bailey, director of the Harlem Tenants Council.
Bill Sales, an African American professor at Seton Hall who was a student at Columbia during the struggles of 1968, noted that the current climate of racism at Columbia is similar to what Black and Latino students faced then. And Brenda Stokely, co-chair of New York City Labor Against War, discussed the need for students to search for community allies in their fight against racism on campus.
Students from Vassar College and Sarah Lawrence College came to the rally to offer their support to the Columbia students and discuss struggles against racism on their campuses. As many speakers pointed out, Columbia isn't isolated, and we have a large pool of potential allies across New York City.
Stop the war
SAN FRANCISCO--About 50 people attended a March 11 antiwar panel sponsored by Mission for Peace, a grassroots, neighborhood antiwar group in the Mission district. Titled "From Iraq to Palestine: Making the Connections," the event brought people from about a dozen organizations to discuss and debate questions facing the antiwar movement.
Jess Ghannam, a Palestinian solidarity activist, spoke of the horrors of the current conditions in Gaza, and Toufic Haddad, from the English-language magazine Between the Lines and a member of the International Socialist Organization, spoke about the goals of U.S imperialism in Palestine and Iraq.
The main point of debate centered on the question of self-determination and resistance. One speaker compared the Palestinian resistance to Native Americans resisting U.S. colonialism. "When the Native Americans were resisting their colonial occupiers, it did not look pretty, but we do not criticize their resistance!" she said to a round of applause.
Defend abortion rights
DOZENS OF students and activists from around Chicago and Evanston, Ill., mounted two successful demonstrations in support of abortion rights March 10. They confronted Joe Scheidler's Pro-Life Action League (PLAL) as it invaded Northwestern and Loyola Universities as part of a campus "Face the Truth" tour.
The PLAL, a fanatical right-wing Christian group renowned for its practices of abortion clinic intimidation and stalking, uses enormous placards graphically depicting what are supposedly abortion "victims." Approximately 75 pro-choice demonstrators turned out at Northwestern University in Evanston to greet PLAL with vociferous chants of "Racist, sexist, antigay--born-again bigots, go away," firmly asserting that they were not welcome.
Later in the day at Loyola, a Catholic university, approximately 15 pro-choice protesters turned out--roughly equaling the size of Scheidler's group. "Get off my campus--get out of my uterus" and "Oppose women's oppression--abortions safe, legal, free" were two of the dozens of colorful handmade posters and banners that lined both sides of the street.
Evanston police arrested Jack, a student from Northeastern Illinois University--after he confronted an anti-choice demonstrator who purposely ran into a banner that friends were holding. "This is basically an attack, not only on women's rights, but on the right to stand up to this kind of garbage," Jack told Socialist Worker after being released.
Immigrant rights
RIVERSIDE, Calif.--About 300 people came together to discuss the fight for immigrant rights February 28. The event combined food, raffles, music from politically active bands and information and discussion about current immigrant issues.
A panel of immigrant workers addressed drivers' licenses, the effects of "terrorism" on immigration and unconditional amnesty for all immigrant workers. "Bush's proposal is no different than the bracero program," said José Calderón, an organizer of day labor centers for immigrant workers, of Bush's proposal for new immigration guidelines.
Calderón made it clear that the only acceptable solution for immigrant workers is unconditional amnesty. Javier Valladares also had a message for Bush. "Stop using us! Bush and the politicians in Washington and Sacramento use us for votes then discard us when we are not needed."
Valladares also expressed his concerns over Bush's proposal as a vehicle to provide American employers with cheap labor. If immigrants sign up with this program, it is easier for big brother to keep tabs on them, Valladares said. The event was a big success and drove home the message that the only solution is to help stop the criminalization of human beings and to fight for immigrants' right to unconditional amnesty.
Free Ansar Mahmood
BATAVIA, N.Y.--More than 50 people gathered outside an immigration detention center March 13 to demand the release of Ansar Mahmood, a Pakistani immigrant detained since shortly after September 11. Ansar was arrested after asking a park employee to take his picture in front of a scenic hill in his town of Hudson, N.Y. Only it turned out that the hill had a reservoir on it.
He was arrested, but no charges were filed when it became clear that he had no links to terrorism. Instead the INS detained him, even though he had his green card. He faces deportation because he violated a little-known statute by helping friends pay their first month's rent, even though they were not here legally. By aiding this couple, Ansar has now spent over two years in captivity.
The protest included chants of "No justice, no peace, till Ansar's released," and "Don't give in to racist fear, immigrants are welcome here." Ansar conveyed a message to the rally via some who had met with him earlier, expressing his gratitude and the message that this is a bigger issue than his case alone because many others are being unjustly detained as well.


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This chapter described the different types of clients that may access Web services and the issues faced by developers of these clients. It highlighted the differences between clients running in a J2EE environment from clients running in the J2SE and J2ME environments, and how these differences affect the design of a client application.
The chapter described the three communication modes available to clients: stubs, dynamic proxy, and dynamic invocation interface. These three modes form the basis for a client's access to a Web service. For each communication mode, the chapter discussed the steps for implementing Web service clients. It provided detailed discussions from how to locate and access a service through handling errors thrown by a service.
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Following the Supreme Court's ruing in favor of the administration in King v. Burwell, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reiterated Republican opposition to the law and said they would continue to push back against it.
"The problem with Obamacare is still fundamentally the same," Boehner told reporters Thursday during his weekly press availability. "The law is broken. It's raising costs for American families, it's raising costs for small businesses and it's just fundamentally broken. And we're going to continue our efforts to do everything we can to put the American people back in charge of their own healthcare and not the federal government. "
Boehner's comments came at the same time President Obama celebrated the Obamacare victory with comments in the Rose Garden, saying: "the Affordable Care Act is here to stay."
According to Boehner, no decisions have been made yet on whether to use the reconciliation to take on Obamacare, but he noted that Republicans will continue to oppose it.
"It needs to be dealt with but as we know it's very difficult to deal with it when you have a president that fundamentally disagrees and so the struggle will continue," he said.
The Ohio Republican stopped short of committing to a vote on a Republican alternative, saying while there has been discussions about it most of the focus had been on the GOP response should the court have ruled against the administration in Thursday's decision.
"Now is the time to refocus our efforts," he said.
Boehner noted that the ruling also does not change anything with the House's lawsuit challenging Obamacare.
"Changes nothing with regard to the lawsuit we filed against the administration over their source of payments to insurers with regard to Obamacare," he said. "They're paying insurers out of an account that's never been appropriated. They're taking money from elsewhere in the law to do this. I think it violates the Constitution. It certainly violates Congress' prerogative to appropriate funds."


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Scholarship Golf Tournament Online Registration Open
Scholarship Golf Tournament Online Registration Open SCAA will host its Second Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament on Friday, August 23 with a shotgun start at 10 am at Cobblestone Golf Club in Blythewood SC. Proceeds from the tournament will provide scholarships for students pursuing aviation careers in the state. Click here for more details Click here to register online....read more
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Southeast Aviation Expo to Reach Mach Speed with Former Blue Angels Pilot "Fastest I got was 1.78 Mach, which is 1.78 times the speed of sound, which equals about 1206 to 1352 miles per hour depending on your cruising altitude! That's scootin' along!" joked Lt. Commander Scott "Yogi" Beare, U.S. Navy (Retired), former pilot for the Blue Angels and author of two books. "We are thrilled to announce that Scott has agreed to be a Key Note Speaker at the Southeast Aviation Expo which will take place at the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina on September 27th and 28th ", stated GMU Airport Director Joe Frasher. "It will be incredible for us to hear about his fast flying experiences since not many pilots ever get to go that fast or fly those type planes!" Beare has had an interesting life. After he began his naval career in nuclear engineering, he soon felt a "higher" calling – literally. He set his sights on his lifelong passion of becoming a pilot earning his navy "wings of gold" in 1985. Spending his last 20 years in the military as a naval aviator, Beare flew a variety of aircraft including the F/A-18 Hornet and F-5 Tiger II, accumulating over 6000 flight hours in these high performance fighters. He is a graduate of the famed Naval Fighter Weapons School "TOPGUN", as well as a combat decorated veteran of Desert Storm where he was awarded two air medals and a navy commendation medal for valor in aerial combat. Beare's aviation career reached new heights in 1995 when he was personally selected for the rare opportunity to fly with the U.S. Navy's world-renowned flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels. Beare will speak at 12:45 pm on Saturday, September...read more
SCAA Scholarship Golf Tournament
SCAA Scholarship Golf Tournament – Friday, August 23 Cobblestone Park Golf Club Blythewood, SC Tournament Online Registration In an effort to promote the aviation industry in SC, the South Carolina Aviation Association began its Scholarship Program in 2012 to provide limited assistance to students pursuing aviation as a career. The scholarship was awarded to three students from Trident Technical College in 2012. Students applying for the scholarship have to be recommended by an SCAA member. Each scholarship winner must meet the criteria set by the SCAA Board of Directors including an overall grade point average of 3.0 and a letter of recommendation from a current member. Proceeds from the SCAA Scholarship Golf Tournament help to fund the association's scholarship program. Prizes will be awarded to the following places: first and second place teams as well as to the golfer with the longest drive and closest to the pin. Rules and regulations are announced at the shot gun start. To register for the golf tournament as an individual or a team, click to access online registration. If you would like to sign up more than one team, you may submit multiple registrations. Space is limited this year, so sign up today! Check-in will begin at 9 am with an 10 am shotgun start. The event will conclude by 3:30 pm. Questions?? Call 1-877-FLY SCAA (1-877-359-7222). Visit the Scholarship info page. SCAA Scholarship Program...read more
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Visit South Carolina's public use airports and become a SC Aviation Ambassador through the SCAA Ambassadors Passport Program. Ambassador's Registration Page The South Carolina Aviation Association (SCAA) is proud to announce the SCAA Ambassadors Passport Program. The program is designed to encourage pilots to fly to all of the airports in South Carolina and visit aviation seminars and the Southeast Aviation Expo. We plan to increase awareness of South Carolina's aviation system and contribute to the economic development activities of each locality by getting pilots to fly to airports and events they may not normally visit. This program is an extraordinary opportunity for pilots aviation enthusiasts and the general public to see the valuable assets in our system of airports. It gives pilots and riders alike an opportunity to set and meet goals in their flying and sightseeing while having fun and experiencing what South Carolina has to offer. Driving to our airports is also acceptable for our ground bound friends, rainy days and where airport access may be difficult on the airplane or pilot skills. The SCAA Ambassadors Passport Program provides Bronze, Silver and Gold level recognition for pilots who visit our airports, aviation events and the Southeast Aviation Expo. Bronze Level Visit 25 of South Carolina's public-use airports. Attend one (1) aviation/safety seminar in South Carolina or Southeast Aviation Expo or the SCAA Annual Meeting. Recieve: South Carolina Aviation Association Ambassador's Cap and a free one (1) year membership in the SCAA. Silver Level Visit 40 of South Carolina's public-use airports. Attend one (1) aviation/safety seminar in South Carolina or Southeast Aviation Expo or the SCAA Annual Meeting. Recieve: Aviation Radio Scanner Gold Level Visit all 59 of South Carolina's public-use airports. Attend one (1) aviation/safety seminar in South Carolina and the Southeast Aviation Expo or the SCAA Annual Meeting. Recieve: Leather Flight Jacket The Rules There is no deadline for completing the passport program as long as the program remains in operation. The program is open to pilots (including students), and participants are not required to be South Carolina residents. Participants must obtain an official SC Aviation Association Ambassadors Passport to participate. You may request a free passport by clicking on the registration page below. When visiting a qualifying airport, event, or safety seminar, participants must obtain a stamp in their passport. All stamps must be made in the appropriate location in the booklet. No stamps may be made on any other document and later placed in the booklet. To receive a stamp from a participating airport or facility, participants must present a photo ID matching the name in the SC Aviation Association Ambassadors Passport. Each participant may only receive one stamp per visit. Upon completion, the passport must be submitted to the SCAA for review. Please note which level (Bronze, Silver or Gold) is being sought. Once a passport has been submitted and gift awarded, the passport will be returned to the participant so that he or she can continue to the next level. Awards and recognition will be made throughout the year. All participants who complete the various levels will be shown on the SCAA website and recognized at the SCAA annual meeting. Other Important Tips Before departure be sure to call facilities that do not publish FBO...read more


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Have you been there for a long time – an hour? two hours? three hours? – juggling during a sexual relationship. Your partner has already reached orgasm and has recovered.
Or, it is not so much that you are "in action", but this action is so discouraged that you would like to put an end to this bummer?
Who knows, sex is even pleasurable and your partner is struggling a lot, but for some reason, you can not fully relax and you're not getting there.
Whatever the reason, feigning an orgasm may seem like a good way to end a bland sexual relationship or to disappoint a dedicated partner.
It may even be that the lie works at first, but if it becomes a habit, you will come out at a great disadvantage – and your partner as well. Here are some consequences of this practice:
1. You are Losing the Health Benefits
Orgasm causes the release of several well-connected neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin.
These substances are able to improve sleep, relieve pain, decrease anxiety, strengthen the immune system and favor concentration. By faking an orgasm, you fail to enjoy all these benefits.
2. Pretending orgasm harms the sex of everyone
Even more if you decide to pretend because the partner is bad of bed! As you may know, many men "learn" the functioning of the female body through pornographic videos – that is, endless penetration and two seconds of clitoral stimulation .
Pretending to have an orgasm because the partner is commanding very badly reinforces this idea. If he is your fixed partner, you will suffer from bad sex. If you are a casual partner, other women will have the same problem. That is, widespread frustration!
3. Your partner will continue to do wrong
When we reach true orgasm, we are signaling to the partner what kinds of stimulation actually give us pleasure. Partners who are connected can capture these signals and understand each other's body more and more.
But by faking an orgasm, your partner will pick up the wrong message and will continue to repeat actions that do not result in real pleasure for you. After all, he thinks it works!
4. Pretending is dishonest
If it's a one-night stand, we even understand. However, if you are pretending to orgasm with your fixed partner, with whom you have an affective relationship, this can be dishonest.
Think backwards: the partner may even have the best of intentions and feign an orgasm to not hurt you, but you would probably feel cheated if you found out after months (or years!) That all those reactions of pleasure were false.
5. Sex turns to obligation
Biologically speaking, orgasm is a mechanism that motivates us to want to have sex again. When the fact that you do not reach orgasm becomes a routine, sex becomes frustrating and you end up losing interest – that is, it becomes an obligation.
When you have orgasms with your partner, it means that you were relaxed, sexually present, and connected to him. Without the orgasm, you have none of that.
6. You forget your own pleasure
When you fake an orgasm, you are convincing yourself that your pleasure is not so important. Well, know that he is! Do not think that you "are taking too long" (each person has their time) and that it is better to let it go.
By faking an orgasm, you take away the possibility of pleasure and deprive your partner of the opportunity to give pleasure to you. You may end up losing the intimacy and bond that orgasms create between the couple.
Of course, orgasm should not be an obligation in every sexual relationship, but simply giving up pleasure just to please the partner will not do you or the relationship well. So enough to pretend!


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It's that buzz word that is almost becoming cliché, in my opinion (well for the design circles). But you need to brand yourself as an emerging professional who is networking, looking for work or starting up a business. With my recent affinity to attending networking events and entrepreneurs and one of the trends that I'm seeing is how you stand out in the job market from the hundreds of people competing with for work. Branding is not just important for firms, it's also important for prospective employees. As emerging designers and professionals who recently graduated or near to finishing their degrees, you have to ask yourselves how you will stand out from the rest of applicants.
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November 27, 2012
Studio Tips: Physical Modelling
Though the Laser Cutter, 3D-Printer, and CNC Milling Machine are now becoming the hottest trend in Model Making, an architecture student should know their way around the shop and also how to use the right materials and tools, and able to make physical models out of cardboard and glue. Marrying all old and new technologies in model making will give you an advantage in showcasing your design intent.
November 09, 2012
Bite Back! - The Post Grad Phase
I naively thought it wasn't going to happen to me. My friends that have graduated have warned me: Prepare for the depressing months after your graduation. And I thought listening to a lot of inspiring TED featured talks from ivy league commencement addresses would be suffice (it helps a bit). For many students, they might begin to do their portfolio – the late bloomers (and I`m in the same boat). Some might get their job offers early since they prepared their portfolio on time during school and just in time to pay their student loans. Some might struggle and have a different scenario. It's really a waiting game and it can get frustrating and disheartening at times and I try to be positive through this experience. Failing and falling behind has prepared me to be positive through it. A lot of college students deal with this, what I`d like to call the "Post-Grad" phase.
November 06, 2012
The Art of the Design Review - PART I
The Design Review – it's the most anxious-inducing, vulnerable conclusion to your design project for studio. To be able to present your design concept and ideas to your peers and a jury of professors and practitioners can be a bit scary. I remember talking to someone when I visited the Pratt Institute for their tours and the student told me that she was critiqued by Steven Holl (If I was in her shoes, I would not know how to keep confident, calm, cool, and collected - I'd probably be scared).
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Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly present data from studies of diabetes drugs
RIDGEFIELD, Conn., and INDIANAPOLIS — Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly will present data from their diabetes portfolio at the 47th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Lisbon, Portugal.
The drug makers will make seven presentations, including study results evaluating linagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor, as well as empagliflozin (BI-10773), an investigational sodium-dependent glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor. Additionally, a long-term study evaluating the efficacy and safety of linagliptin in patients with Type 2 diabetes was selected by EASD as an oral presentation.
Linagliptin in the 5-mg strength was approved in May by the Food and Drug Administration under the trade name Tradjenta.
Swiffer boosts products with HD Clean technology
CINCINNATI — Swiffer has updated its products with high-definition technology to offer a deeper clean.
"Swiffer is going beyond traditional methods to deliver a clean so extraordinary that the definition of clean as we know it has been elevated to the idea of 'high definition,'" P&G's home care external relations manager Jeff Pierce said. "Consumers will be pleasantly surprised when they use our products and discover the new level of shine and clarity we're providing."
Swiffer dry cloths, Swiffer dusters and Swiffer WetJet solution with HD Clean technology currently are available at mass merchandise, drug and grocery retailers nationwide.
Eddie Li to join Novo Nordisk as VP regulatory affairs
PRINCETON, N.J. — Novo Nordisk has appointed a new VP regulatory affairs.
Effective Sept. 12, Eddie Li will lead the drug maker's U.S. regulatory team and maintain relationships with individuals and agencies outside of Novo Nordisk that play a role in the Food and Drug Administration's review and approval process, the company said.
Li will report to Anne Philips, corporate VP clinical development, medical and regulatory affairs for North America.


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I approached with the fear that invaded my photograph so unacceptable their pain. But openness and extreme sense of hospitality of these people welcomed me in their grief in a dignified and generous manner. Gradually I felt emotionally involved in this event succeeding so deeply to get close to the time that I wanted to describe. Maramures (Romania)
Born in Udine (Italy) 1961, I have studied at Venice Fine Arts Institute (Italy) in the late of 70's. Became interested in social photography and reportage (in those years essentially black and white). Over the years I have expanded my interests experimenting in various fields such as still life, portraits, fashion photography, beauty and fine art.My photos have been published in several newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Sun and Vogue Italia. I have taken part in several exhibitions and competitions, and received awards both locally, nationally and internationally awards.


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Whiteboard animation is a remarkable way to make some big ideas easier to comprehend.
I take on one of the big ones-The Technological Singularity concept in three minutes.
Whiteboard animation explaining, in three minutes, the Technological Singularity concept made famous by Ray Kurzweil and other futurists.
Illustrated, shot, edited and co-written by Lew Keilar.
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Contemporary canal-side flats by Dunedin Canmore Housing Association have won a coveted national design accolade.
The St Mark's Quay affordable rented housing development at Lochrin Basin, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, has received a Scottish Design Award.
The 22 open plan one and two-bedroom apartments were designed by Michael Laird Architects and built by Mactaggart & Mickel. They have floor to ceiling windows overlooking a landscaped south-facing courtyard. Two of the flats on the ground floor are suitable for wheelchair users.
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The Creature
The Creature
The Creature is one of my favorite fantasy poems about a mythical creature, part dog, part dragon — the last of its kind, who is slain by a knight, without need, without thought, without consideration. As the creature passes, cruelly slain, it realizes its fate, and sadly understands it is the last of its kind. And, in the end, is taken into the Great Light of God's embrace, to be remembered only as legend. The poem was inspired by the background image, which haunted me for weeks before this fantasy poem emerged.
©2011 by Jon Gutmacher
Oh creature
as you breathe
your last
what foul deed
this day has passed
who did this thing
to end your life
of such a
precious soul?
Who flew the air
who did no harm
who flew to lands
no man had gone
to be so slain
by sword so quick
the last
your magic kind
For men know not
no honor have
to slaughter thus
your precious heart
unto the past
you now will pass
your legend gone
your life
the last
And so you look
unto your dreams
and God above
in sadness seems
to leave this Earth
to leave the Land
and ne'er to return
I pray for you
my heart beats low
for this is something
that I know
I shall never forget
all you were
as you pass
into God's great light
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As of yesterday, the CW series Arrow, based on DC's Green Arrow line of comics, has finished its fifth season. It marks the end of the show's five year story line. Maybe now, more than ever, is it time to look back at what the series did right and where it, eventually, started to faulter.
The series started when I was at an interesting point in the autumn of 2012, just as the superhero bubble had reached its peak with the back to back hits of The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers, giving us two very different interpretations of the superhero formula. A lot of people in comic fandom back then, myself included, were riding high on the ultra shiny Avengers bandwagon, grim and gritty was out, we said. It would still be a while until I soured on the whole genre myself, and eventually came to peace with simply liking a good story, regardless of whether or not it was dark or light-hearted.
Arrow's first season is pretty much all we need to discuss in regards to whether or not people like this series, because much of the backlash against the series hasn't really changed since. There have been ups and down in storytelling throughout the first five years, with seasons 1 and 2 still marking a personal highlight in superhero television for me, unrivaled by anything on network television and only surpassed by the excellent web material put out by Netflix in sheer size and quality. Season 1, from the very first frames, divided the audience up in people who liked and disliked the series, so much was clear from the internet groups and back chatter I participated back then. It's easy to see why, the series very much changes up the entire Green Arrow mythology to fit it into a TV series format, cherry picking from a lot of older material from the 80s, inventing new characters, changing motivations, often combined with a main cast that was probably chosen because they fit the CW mold of being young and hot. And let's get down to where a lot of people immediately called it quit: Green Arrow wasn't called that and he killed people. Brutally so.
Regardless of whether or not you know comic book fandom, there are some pretty sacred cows, two of which are that you do not change anything about the source material, except when it's okay, and you do not have non-lethal characters suddenly kill people, except when it's okay. Another rule of thumb: no comic book character has ever had more old-school die-hard fans until the day his live action series/movie is announced. Far be it from me to say who counts and doesn't count as a fan, but I needed to get this off my chest, because these little points have been the main points of contention for the first three or so years of the show's existence before people started to ignore the series. In many ways it follows Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, and DC's own Gotham in that regard. Maybe it wouldn't annoy me so much if people didn't actually 'get' what the show was about and how it, slowly, went off the deep end.
It's hard to blame people, since it took myself, an incredibly smart and thoughtful person, close to half a season to realize myself how big this show's balls were and how much they had actually planned, at least at the beginning. Arrow was not the show of swashbuckling arrow themed vigilante Green Arrow, but it was the story of Oliver Queen growing to become Green Arrow. A hero's journey if you will. The show was at it's best when it followed this story through and it did so for the first three seasons and managed to get back to it by season 5.
The first two seasons are thematically the strongest of the entire run of far, with a continuous story of Oliver growing more heroic and the setting growing more fantastical and comic book-esque by the season, to the point where time travelers, metahumans, and wizards become regular elements by the end of season 4. Much to the detriment of the show's tone, but it did follow a straight line of escalation. Then again so does a train when it runs you over. Yet the first two seasons still pull it off beautifully, making the show more grounded while acknowledging the fantasy elements regularly found in the comic book universe, giving it a science fiction twist that is still ridiculous by other media's standards but feels just believable enough to make the series a nice missing link between Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Batman and the later-day fantastical stories of The Flash, Gotham, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow.
The biggest strength of the show in the first two seasons was how it managed to fit the Green Arrow story into a handy 23 episodes a year format we know as the standard for network television in the United States. Many elements had to be twisted or reinvented to fit the constrains of that format, and the show managed to do it by combining a series long character arc for the hero with a seasonal story line and a big supporting cast that, while occasionally annoying as hell, especially towards seasons 3 and 4, that made for potentially dozens of good weekly outings.
It remained at dozens though, because starting with the end of season 2 and Oliver Queen's character arc reaching the "Arrow" stage of his "Green Arrow" persona, the show started to run out of steam, while also being steadily mired in soap opera problems, mediocre writing from a stretched-thin writing staff, and official couple romantic plot tumors.
The big problem that all the superhero shows have, both on network television as well as Netflix, is that they all suffer tremendous pacing problems, especially starting with the second seasons of all of these shows. It's in many ways an advantage that the first season that they get to tell additional stories that later seasons can no longer cover: the origins of the characters, the set up for the series. Arrow alone had, depending on how you count, a nine episode pilot before the myth arc really got started. Season 2 managed to buck that trend, but starting with season 3 the creative team was being stretched thin by having to work on two, later three, and finally four different shows all at the same time, with the older shows often receiving the B and C teams of writers. Coupled with story fatigue, this proved especially disastrous for Arrow.
It's ironic that the one way Arrow mirrors its source material the most, is in story fatigue. Many comic books, before they were rebooted every other week, often ran for decades on end, and while the writers often changed, there was no finite conclusion. Arrow was able to curb that trend at first, but once Oliver's arc towards herodom was starting to get rolled back or derailed by writers desperate to fill 23 hours of entertainment each year, they were running into the same issues.
Season 3 and 4 were in many ways the low point for that, and season 5 shows the limitations of the 23 episode format as well. It was it's advantages in terms of pacing, giving you one adventure per week, helping with viewer fatigue, but it is disastrous for thinly stretched story arcs. Arrow season 5 is the third best season of the entire run and its story line could be reduced to 6-8 episodes if done properly for much greater impact. More shows need to adopt the arc format that Gotham and, from what I hear, Agents of SHIELD have managed to get working for itself (last time I ever say anything good about AoS, I swear).
And yet, like I said a while back in my post about how Arrow can still teach us something about serialized storytelling, I cannot deny that the show still has some charm over me. I still want to know how the story continues, even if the majority of episodes are not for me. Starting with this season I did something I have never done: I have skipped watching the episodes when they came out and with the second half of the season started to watch only the arc relevant episodes, using plot summaries for the rest. It has been a superior viewing experience because when the show hits its stride, goddammit is it still entertaining for someone who has been around since season 1.
And this is really what it comes down to: can you overlook the soap opera elements, uneven writing, terrible universe crossovers, tonal inconsistencies, mediocre acting, and character arcs that go in circles? Then congratulations, come and join me in an endless cycle of tiring and binging on superhero media. It's quite ironic that this is the way that superhero adaptations have managed to become closest in mimicking their source material. Now excuse me while I go back to watching Girlboss and Taboo, because I'm complicated…


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Recognising the trends in family-run businesses is an interesting one. While they do not always have the best reputations due to the conceivable pitfalls of working with family, which the article and Boston Consulting Group allude too, they must be getting something right.
However, there is a notorious expression amongst family businesses: 'the first generation makes it, the second generation spends it, and the third generation blows it'. So where are they potentially going wrong? They are often criticised for the baggage that can come with them. Whether succession disputes, inheritance duties/tax or even uneducated decisions, the common denominator is usually poor planning. Studies have consistently found that only 1 in 3 successful business owners has built a fruitful estate plan.
This might be avoidable with better financial planning and education, potentially with the help of an expert adviser who specialises in succession and inheritance, or making more informed decisions based on education.
...research by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that 40 per cent of French and German companies with annual revenues exceeding $1bn are family-owned, as are 90 per cent of businesses worldwide. So what can we learn from them?


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